Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-08-27

The Deadwood fair is billed to com
mence Sept. 10Th, and continue during
the week.
In the march Of empire you will find
that j. Cochran sells good goods, cheap
for each.
John Benny, a youth Of Lead City,
died last week from being struck by a
ball two weeks previous.
Money to loan.
A. II. Van Devort, Buffalo Gap.
Lead City was visited by the first
4 snow fall Of the season On Monday. 1t
was light, but cold as any snow.
Choice grapes by the basket at bottom
rates at H~itchcock's.
Ten stamps are in operation at the
Queen Bee mine. The ore is said to be
high grade, and the chances for success
full results are promising.
If you want to counteract any condi-
ton of the thermometer, buy your goods
at Cochran's.
A new gun club has been organized at
Deadwood, under the NEUROLOGICAL
name of the "Nimrod Club" which will
have to fire fast and accurate to down
the older organization Of that "up the
gulch" metropolis.
Arbuckles, or any other kind coffee
20 cts pound at the Red Front, Buffalo
Gap. w. j. Wood Il Co.
a match game of base ball between
Rapid and Hermosa amateurs was
booked to come off ut the former place
yesterday. A large score on both sides
will doubtless be the most prominent
feature of the occasion.
Assaying done at Booth & Webster's
Gold, $l.00; silver, $l.00 gold and sill
Yer, $50; copper 81 SO; tin 81 90; nickel
$500.
The Pioneer insists that the 10Y ernor
gan have the county seat ofthe proposed
new county of Mead located where he
chooses. and that after all her pains,
Sturgis may yet be left to shiver in the
cold current Of dire disappointment.
Builders will bear in mind that the
best place 20 buy paints and oils is at
Hitchcock's.
Jerry White. the negro rapist, who
was lynched by a band Of twenty-five
masked men at Valentine, Nebraska,
last Saturday, is said to have been a
hanger-on at Rapid a month ago, where
he committed u robbery and was order
ed out Of the place by the marshal.
Say, Bob, how did yon like the show ?
Well, it did not strike me half as forci-
bic as J. Cochran, selling goods way
down for cash.
The Times reports 600 teams and a
corresponding large number of I.en
emdloyed on the grade between Sturgis
and Whitewood, with Il probability OF
that part Of the road being completed
in a few weeks; and Of the track being
laid to Whitewood without Interrupt.
ton.
Three pounds best uncolored Jap tea,
or three pounds best Gunpowder tea for
$l.00. at w. j. Wood q Co., Red Front,
Buffalo Gap.
A Rapid telegram to the Sioux City
Journal is authority for the statement
that the grand jury in Deadwood return
cd ffty-five indictments, many Of which
IRE for infamous ~offenses, duplicating a
number of the most prominent residents
Of that place. This morsei Of news will
be considered AS sensational as it is in
direct.
A full line Of patent medicines, and
toilet articles can be procured at eastern
prices at Hitchcock's.
The war on telephone rates which
was raging for a time in Rapid seems to
have subsidized upon the arrival Of Supt.
Newman, who displaced the manager of
tIAC CAShlaAES III AZ bCtiis2ICuJ Guy,
appointing a Deadwood man in his
stead. So far no diminution in Rapid
hello's have been reported, and proba-
bly, will not be very soon.
G. w. Dryden, United States deputy
mineral surveyor, accompanied by
Louis Floorman came in from Rapid on
Monday. The object of Mr.. Bryden's
visit to Custer, is to complete the nee.
essary surveys upon the Smith and
Clark placer claims in view Of patenting
the same. These claims adjoin the cas-
ern boundary line ofthe townsite. The
applicants are f. H. Smith, for the
Smith claim, and C. II. Walker for the
Clark claim.